You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
HENRY JAMESWhen you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
More Henry James Quotes
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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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I’m yours for ever–for ever and ever. Here I stand; I’m as firm as a rock. If you’ll only trust me, how little you’ll be disappointed. Be mine as I am yours.
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Every good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.
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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
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Criticism talks a good deal of nonsense, but even its nonsense is a useful force. It keeps the question of art before the world, insists upon its importance.
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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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We work in the dark – we do what we can – we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.
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In other words summarise intensely and deeply and keep down the lateral development. It should be a little gem of bright, quick, vivid form
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The superiority of one man’s opinion over another’s is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.
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If you have work to do, don’t wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it.
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I mean that everything this afternoon has been too beautiful, and that perhaps everything together will never be so right again. I’m very glad therefore you’ve been a part of it.
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If this was love, love had been overrated.
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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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